a. When you read this poem, how do you feel about the Canadian landscape? Explain in 10-12 sentences. Think deep and be creative.
The Lonely Land
A.J.M. Smith
A.J.M. Smith
Cedar and jagged fir
uplift sharp barbs
against the gray
and cloud-piled sky;
and in the bay
blown spume and windrift
and thin, bitter spray
snap
at the whirling sky;
and the pine trees
lean one way.
A wild duck calls
to her mate,
and ragged
and passionate tones
stagger and fall,
and recover,
and stagger and fall,
on these stones -
are lost
in the lapping of water
on smooth, flat stones.
This is a beauty
of dissonance,
this resonance
of stony strand,
this smoky cry
curled over a black pine
like a broken
and wind-battered branch
when the wind
bends the tops of the pine
like a broken
and wind-battered branch
when the wind
bends the tops of the pines
and curdles the sky
from the north.
This is the beauty
of strength
broken by strength
and still strong
"Cedar and jagged fir uplift sharp barbs" This half sentence successful creative the view of the tree sway in the big storm. The fir looks like very strange. Its surface of irregularity like jagged. The cedar and fir are both grow on sharp rocks.” against the gray and cloud-piled sky" This half sentence particular describe the sky. The sky is gray. There are many clouds in the sky. The cedar and fir are very high, like can against the sky. "In the bay blown spume and wind rift and thin, bitter spray snap" This sentence describes the view of the bay. In the bay there has blown spume in it. This explains that the water in the bay is opacity. There is some soil or sand in the water. “A wild duck calls to her mate, and ragged and passionate tones stagger and fall, and recover, and stagger and fall, on these stones” This sentence describe the duck is hardly walk because of the big storm. It fall and recover, and stagger and fall, many time. This explains the storm is very big so when the duck walk the storm will take it away. This made the duck fall without stop.
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